South Africa has one of the highest rates of infant abandonment in the world. The national lockdown exacerbated this as being under lockdown posed a lot of hardships for many households, leaving many people without jobs and not knowing where their next income will come from. Speaking on the rise of child abandonment during the Covid-19 pandemic is Nadene Grabham who is the Operations Director at Door of Hope. Door of Hope is a children’s home that allows mothers to leave their babies any time of the day or night for them to be taken care of.